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Because a huge part of her merit and prowess was overcoming what must have been enormous social resistance. Plus it marks a shift in society to allow a woman to design this that should be noted and celebrated. This statement is not adding an irrelevant social label to politicize what is otherwise an egalitarian meritocracy. That’s naive an insulting to de Blois, but more so the many female architects of merit who never got the chance because of chauvinism.

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